I have a particular fondness for writing for voices. In my student days at Oxford I conducted choirs in a wide variety of music and later worked with professional singers while on the musical staff of many different opera houses and festivals.

'Highlights' are as follows:

My was chosen by the SPNM for performance at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in 1984 where it was sung by Rosemary Hardy, Linda Hurst, Martyn Hill and Stephen Varcoe. It was recorded by the BBC and later broadcast in the series Music In Our Time. Rhichard Steinitz, then the director of the Huddersfield Festival, introduced the programme and you can hear his talk by clicking . The piece was intended to give a quartet of voices - with the phenomenal abilities of these performers - a concert piece of substance which might compare with, say, a string quartet, and in this way refer back to a medium largely neglected since Renaissance times. The piece is also ambitious in having been planned in one movement: the text of the Mass, while important, is subsidiary to the way the music unfolds. It lasts about 25 minutes and you can in QuickTime format.

is an earlier piece, written while I was completing my studies with John Lambert at the Royal College of Music. A short, but virtuosic setting of the text by St Thomas Aquinas. It has been recorded by four singers from the Royal Opera House.

The was written for an amateur choir; as yet unperformed, it can be heard in simulated form. The accompaniment is for solo piano, although accompaniment is perhaps not the right word, as choir and piano combine in concerto fashion.

The has a special relevance to the events of 2001 (although it was written two years previously). It is a setting of the Anglo-Saxon text The Ruin which is thought, perhaps, to be a depiction of what was left of the Roman city of Bath as seen through the eyes of the poet. The text cleverly oscillates between a description of the stones and a reconstruction of a past life. To emphasise all this, I have set the text in the original Old English (using a transliteration that will not be hard for singers to use).

There is also a group of works suitable for liturgical use and a few songs.